Grab Face Of A Stranger Generated By Yoji Yamaguchi Accessible In Edition

read and worthwhile. Interesting comic interpretation of life and resistance of Japanese picture brides, Didn't think it was great, however, A fascinating premise for the book, but the writing was horrible so bad, in fact, that I looked to see if it was just a poor translation.
Can't recommend it. found this in my workplace's library looks really familiar, i think one of my friends a couple of years ago read it and donated it to the library.
if it's the girl i am thinking of, wish she would have donated all the cds i lent her which she never returned! at any rate, the book looks like it is written in simple prose, tries

to start off with a bit of a bang the protagonist's search for a prostitute, and seems like it could be a good introduction to the plight of japanese migrant workers in the earlyth century for someone who knows very little about the subject.
a book about injustice that seems to be written in a breezy enough style that i won't lose sleep or be preoccupied with morbid, bitter thoughts.
Not generally one to read fiction, I found this a good read, It is the tale set in the Victorian era of women that were brought to America from the Far East under the false pretense of marrying JapaneseAmericans, only to find that they were actually sent to America to serve in brothels.

Later, one of the women comes facetoface with the man that she believed she was brought over to marry.
The man's picture had been shown to the prospective brides to induce them to come to America without his knowledge Set in a California town in the early part of the century, Face of a Stranger tells the story of Kikue and Shino, two Japanese picture brides who came to America in arranged marriages only to discover upon their arrival that they had been duped into lives of prostitution.
Both women are jarred when they encounter Takashi Arai, a young migrant worker and indolent rake, certain that they recognize him as the bogus groom in the photograph used to deceive them.
Even as they scheme to buy their freedom from their pimp, they begin plotting revenge against Arai with the help of Hana, a beautiful girl who might be insane, the hapless farmer Kogoro Doi and the unwitting Inadas, two zealous Christian converts.
A sly, farcical tale of dissembling, revenge and mistaken identity, Face of a Stranger marks the remarkable debut of a writer of uncommon brilliance.
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